Texas has spent untold billions “upgrading” their power grid to the point where 40% of their power comes from “renewable energy”. They have three times as much wind power online as any other state in the union including California. For every megawatt of wind power they need to have an equivalent amount of gas, coal, or nuclear power on standby ready to spool up instantaneously. Now we know what happens in Texas when wind and solar fail. The reserve power was not ready to go when it was needed. The increased demand caused water in gas lines that had been running at low capacity to freeze. This was caused not as much by low outside temperatures as by low pressure in the lines from increased demand... the same way that an air conditioner works by increasing the pressure of refrigerant gasses to expel heat and decreasing pressure to absorb it. The lines would have had problems from increased demand even if the outside temperatures were much higher.
Texas now has a poorly engineered and undependable electrical grid. What is going to be done about it? Most likely nothing. Texans are going to have to learn to deal with an undependable 3rd world style electric supply grid. Way to go Texas!
Who is to blame? Look at the grifters in the green energy sector and the politicians who have been funneling government money to their buddies through grants, loans and policy. Who am I talking about??? Someone who stabbed President Trump in the back calling him “RECKLESS AND IRRESPONSIBLE” a week before he was ensnared in a bad joke of a political scandal completely of his own making. What does a politician do when the electric grid that he helped destabilize fails? I am speaking of Cancun Ted of course.
Wash., D.C. (Dec. 23, 2019) — Tri Global Energy, a leading U.S. originator and developer of utility-scale wind energy projects, today announced that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the 2019 recipient of the Tri Global Energy Wind Leadership Award, recognizing commitment to wind development and to the people who rely on wind farms to support their families and communities.
Not sure what your point is. We probably won’t have another storm like this for fifty years. By then, we will all be burning algae in our fireplaces and the windmills will be used by artists to ply their trade.